A prominent critic of the process is Allen Roberts, MD, who blogs as Grunt Doc. http://gruntdoc.com. “I&apos;m a proud member of ABEM,” he said. “I know they have this continuous certification thing going that has been forced on them by ABMS. And I understand the idea behind the yearly test [the Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment].

I am 100% behind you Allen. The recertification process just becomes more time consuming and complicated without any proof of improvement. The LLSA articles are mostly crap. Part 4 is a ridiculous waste of time. The next question is, do I really need my ABEM merit badge to practice good medicine?

I’m a recent (2007) Residency grad and I too think this is useless. Many of the recent LLSA articles we looked at during residency and I knew they were not so helpful even then. As for part 4, do we really want press ganey being part of our certification?